On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andreas Eriksson wrote:

> Hi, is there anybody out there who know any software that's compatible with
> Microchips PICSTART PLUS programmer, and is there any good assemblers for
> linux too?


Here's where the Linux Pic tools can be found:

http://www.gnupic.org/

To answer your particular questions, there are
a couple of assemblers. The one I'd recommend
is gpasm:

http://gpasm.sourceforge.net/

The good thing about gpasm is that it is compatible
with Microchip's MPASM. So software written for their
assembler works for gpasm as well. (This is more of
a true statement since here lately Craig Franklin has
been pouring a lot of time in making gpasm compatible.)
The linker is being worked on right now, so fairly
soon you'll be able to create object files too.

Another assembler is Todd Squire's tpasm:

http://www.sqrt.com/

I haven't used it, but it appears quite powerful. It
is also a cross assembler (it supports the 6805,
8051, z80, AVR, etc...)

Now as far as a PicStart compatible driver, check out
Andrew Pine's picp:

http://www.cosmodog.com/pic/index.html

Andrew has reverse engineered the Microchip's PICStart+
protocol and written a Linux driver for it. This is the
one I use and I've never had a problem with it.

The GNUPIC mailing list is devoted to discussing Open
Source PIC development tools. The traffic is very low
so it probably won't burden you too much to just lurk.

Scott

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